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Recently, Grolten was led to believe that a cache of
stolen pearls was hidden in Dory's warehouse. so she Behind the warehouse spreads a gray-green pit of mud.
did some "research" on the place to determine whether A huge, rickety crane protrudes from the far wall of the
it was worth burgling. But a few days of watching the warehouse, its limbs rusted and bent. Dangling from it is
site revealed too much activity, with people coming and the dripping hulk of a ship, hanging some fifty feet above
going day and night. Grotten also noted that Dory has the greasy mud.
creatures watching his place that appear to be part hu- •
man and pan fish (Dory's skum guards).
Though Grotten loves to talk, she makes it clear that During the day, the warehouse bustles with workers
she has one other secret the characters definitely want who load and unload large, six-wheeled freight wagons.
to know-but she requires a 30 percent cut of anything Dory rents space in the warehouse to merchants and
valuable the characters extract from Dory's warehouse alchemists, many of whom use it as a staging area for
in return. If that deal is struck, the burglar tells them shipments. After dark. the warehouse is locked tight and
that some sort of golem made up of parts of sea crea- protected against intruders by monstrous guardians.
tures was recently delivered to the warehouse. Grotten Dory lives in the suspended ship. Reaching the ship
has no idea where it came from, but is sure that the go- without magic requires climbing the crane, which takes
lem is at the warehouse or in Dory's residence still. a successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check. On a
failed check, the climber falls 40 feet. The safer route
MR. DORY'S WAREHOUSE across the bridge can be accessed only through the
Map 8.2 depicts the warehouse where Mr. Dory's busi- warehouse.
ness takes place and the bizarre location where he re- The warehouse workers don't want any trouble. If the
sides. When the characters approach. read: characters bully their way in. the workers flee. holler-
ing that they intend to summon the militia. Fortunately
• for the characters, they have an unknown ally pulling
Mr. Dory's warehouse is a three-story stone building, strings for them behind the scenes. Another of the
roofed in slate and dotted with iron-barred windows. Its local councillors, Thornwell, has her own reasons for
wanting Mr. Dory humiliated, bankrupted. or-better
walls and roof appear to be coated with a bituminous
yet-killed. She has been keeping an eye on her enemy
black gruel, an accumulation of the pollution that belches
as a result (see the "Adventure Hooks'' section), and has
from nearby alchemists' workshops.
counter-bribed the militia that Dory has paid off, so that
they ignore calls for help from the warehouse. No patrol
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